 Haul in the slack," observes the headsman, while the boatsteerer coils it again carefully into the tubs as it is drawn up. The whale is now seen approaching the surface ; the gurgling and bubbling water which rises before also proclaims that he is near...  Natural History: Mammalia - Page 110by Philip Henry Gosse - 1848 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - Offshore whaling - 1839 - 426 pages
...whale is now seen approaching the surface ; the gurgling and bubbling water which rises before also proclaims that he is near ; his nose starts from the...projected high and suddenly, from his agitation. The " slack " of the line is now coiled in the tubs, and those in the " fast " boat haul themselves gently... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...whale is now seen approaching the surface; the gurgling and bubbling water which rises before also proclaims that he is near; his nose starts from the...projected high and suddenly, from his agitation. The "slack" of the line is now coiled in the tubs, and those in the "fast" boat haul themselves gently... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...whale is now seen approaching the surface; the gurgling, and bubbling water, which rises before, also proclaims, that he is near ; his nose starts from...rushing spout is projected high and suddenly, from bis agitation. The "slack" of the line is now coiled in the tubs, uml those in the "fast" boat haul... | |
 | Natural history - 1839 - 786 pages
...now seen approaching the surface ; the gurgling nnd bubbling water which rises before also proclaim that he is near; his nose starts from the sea; the rushing spoi:t is projected hiph and suddenly, from his agitation. The ' slack" of the line is now coiled in... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 396 pages
...Presently he is seen approaching the surface ; " the gurgling and bubbling water, which rises before, also proclaims that he is near ; his nose starts from the...is projected high and suddenly from his agitation." On his reaching the surface, the other boats infix their harpoons, while at the same instant the former... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...the other boats are ready to bend on their lines, each of which is two hundred fathoms long ; fora Whale will sometimes carry down four lines, descending...his long lower jaw, rolls over and over, coiling the Hue round his body, or leaps completely out of the water. The boats are often upset, sometimes broken... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1866 - 412 pages
...up. 9. The whale is now seen approaching the surface ; the gurgling and bubbling water which rises, proclaims that he is near ; his nose starts from the...projected high and suddenly, from his agitation. The slack of the line is now coiled in the tubs, and those in the fast boat, haul themselves gently toward... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...whale is now seen approaching the surface ; the gurgling and bubbling water which rises before also proclaims that he is near ; his nose starts from the...projected high and suddenly, from his agitation. The " slack" of the line is now coiled in the tubs, and those in the " fast" boat haul themselves gently... | |
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